Editing Marathon (section)

==Marathon Infinity: Blood Tides of Lh'owon, or "WTF Is Going On Here!?"==

[[Image:Marathon-timeline-diagram-2.png|150px|thumb|right|This is what is considered to be a "simple" explanation of Infinity's timelines. Consume at your own peril.]]

The Security Officer suddenly finds himself on the dark, ancient Jjaro space station, with Durandal rambling about the released eldritch cosmic horror that in mere moments will eat them all. He then laments that they didn't have time to explore Lh'owon in search of S'pht'Kr. But wait, didn't they did that already last game? And then the Security Officer comes in brief contact with some unknown AI that is even more vague than Thoth, and he warps out to... a few hours before Durandal arrives to Lh'owon, on the Pfhor spaceship under Tycho's command, who apparently kidnapped the Security Officer from Marathon before Durandal had a chance to do so.

It should be noted that, at a superficial observation, the writing for this one is akin to a fever-dream.

The simple explanation: We briefly mentioned above about Jjaro hurling their enemies into the sun. Well, turns out that said enemy was the W'rkncacnter from Pathways Into Darkness, and Trih Xeem blew up the sun, releasing it and screwing reality just by existing. Thanks to the weakened reality, The Security Officer's cybernetic implants (which happened to have Jjaro origins) activate and sends him through multiple timelines on the very confusing quest to prevent the cosmic horror from escaping its prison. It concludes with the Security Officer merging Durandal and Thoth into one being, who turns out to be that mysterious AI from the beginning of the game, activating the Jjaro space station to create a black hole to contain W'rkncacnter, and the Durandal/Thoth construct rewards the Security Officer with freedom.

The Epilogue rolls, with Durandal/Thoth contemplating his life during the final nanoseconds of the universe's life cycle. Long since have abandoned trying to achieve true immortality, his thoughts turn back to one person, one mystery he couldn't figure out completely; a Security Officer, a Battleroid whose mortal creators fused him with technology they didn't understand, and concludes in his final moments that the Security Officer is Destiny itself. (cue various fans theorizing that Bungie's upcoming game, Destiny, is a Marathon sequel)

It wasn't, as anyone who's reading this nowadays. BUUUUUUUUUTTTTT Bungie connected the two universes with the MIDA multi-tool and MIDA mini-tool legendary weapons in Destiny 2. As in their Lore entries spell out that the weapons come from Mars after MIDA was defeated in the Marathon universe. In-universe they write them off as coming from a Different Timeline. (Alternative timelines are just business as usually for the Main Characters in Destiny. Seriously, there's an entire enemy race that are based out of what is, effectively, an infinite amount of Timelines. You beat them up anyway.)